2 Samuel 13:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

She had a garment of divers colours Of embroidered work. His servant brought her out, &c. A high contempt of a king's daughter. But the servant's dependance on his master overruled all respect due to her. “Tamar thus treated,” says Delaney, “not parted with as an innocent woman, cruelly injured, but thrust out as a prostitute that had seduced to sin, is the strongest image of innocence, barbarously abused, and insufferably insulted, that history affords us; the greatest injury loaded with the greatest indignities! contumely added to cruelty!”

2 Samuel 13:18

18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.